#OPTION

#OPTION( option, value );

optionA case sensitive string constant containing the name of the option to set.
valueThe value to set the option to. This may be any type of value, dependent on what the option expects to be.

The #OPTION statement is typically a compiler directive giving hints to the code generator as to how best to generate the executable code for a workunit. This statement may be used outside an XML scope and does not require a previous call to the LOADXML function to instantiate an XML scope.

Definition of Terms

These definitions are "internal-only" terms used in the option definitions that follow.

DFADeterministic Finite-state Automaton.
FoldTo turn a complex expression into a simpler equivalent one. For example, the expression "1+1" can be replaced with "2" without altering the result.
SpillWriting intermediate result sets to disk so that memory is available for subsequent steps.
FunnelThe + (append file) operator between datasets can be visualized as pouring all the records into a funnel and getting a single stream of records out of the bottom; hence the term "funnel."
TopNAn internally generated activity used in place of CHOOSEN(SORT(xx), n) where n is small, as it can be computed much more efficiently than sorting the entire record set then discarding all but the first n.
ActivityAn ECL operator that takes one or more datasets as inputs.
GraphAll the Activities in a query.
SubgraphA collection of Activities that can all be active at the same time in Thor.
PeepholeA method of code optimization that looks at a small amount of the unoptimized code at a time, in order to combine operations into more efficient ones.